Godwin (4th Estate) by Joseph O’Neill. Joseph O’Neill remains best known for Netherland (2008). Hailed as a Great American ...

The creation of global mushroom maps is unearthing new species and teaching us how they support Earth’s ecosystem ...

Hopeful Pessimism (Princeton University Press 2025) by Mara van der Lugt ...

As big questions go, you can’t get much bigger than “What is the meaning of life?” It is a question that is often modified slightly, becoming “Does life have a purpose?” One can quibble over the ...

Photo credit: Bruno Litaldi via Unsplash The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About? (Oxford University Press) by Nick Spencer and Hannah Waite This is an intelligent, ...

A map of the oldest light in our Universe - aka the cosmic microwave background - as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission. Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration One of the ...

Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (University of Minnesota Press) by Jordan S. Carroll Right-wingers are usually seen as political advocates for the past, associated with ...

Carroll also acknowledges that far-right tropes continue to permeate the genre. It’s not hard to think of examples of narratives like, say, Avengers: Endgame in which, as Carroll says, “militaristic ...

Credit: James Eades via Unsplash Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter (William Collins) by Kat Hill In the summer of 1847, Oxford academic Arthur Hugh Clough, in a slump, travelled north to the Scottish ...

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